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A day after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius indicated that the Obama Administration was ready to get rid of the public option portion of a health care reform bill, Congressional liberals' reaction has had the White House backpedal.

On Monday, leaders of both the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus sent Sebelius a letter in protest.

The letter said those caucuses stood in strong opposition to the statement that the public option is ânot the essential elementâ of comprehensive reform.

Bill Newton is the Director of the Florida Consumer Action Network (FCAN). The group is strongly in support of progressive health care reform. Newton himself was a guest speaker at the town hall meeting hosted by the Services Employee International Union and state legislator Betty Reed, a meeting that erupted into chaos after Tampa Congresswoman Kathy Castor tried to speak.

WMNF asked Newton today if he was alarmed at Sebeliusâ comments on Sunday.